Virtual idol Hatsune Miku’s latest live performance, “Miku’s Day,” has proven a huge success, with otaku attendees enthusiastically queueing by the the thousand and being driven into a frenzy by the spectacular performance the Vocaloids offered.

The fact that Rin, Len, and Luka were included in this makes the concert even more epic….although I would like to see some Kaito, Meiko, Gumi, and Gakupo just to see how they would look on screen, especially Meiko I wonder how she would look in her outfit?………(dreaming)

You see, I’m a computer scientist. I got my first computer when I was ten; it would choke and limp for an hour to draw a simple 3D senoid… But move forward a mere twenty years, and fully animated 3D idols are dancing in front of a live crowd. To think that such progress was made in such a short time fills my heart with joy and hope for the future.

That’s why, when I saw the videos, I also felt like crying a little. To think such beauty is already possible, so early in my lifetime… That indeed, the frontier between material and virtual is beginning to get blurred. And so the promise living within the heart of Machine inches ever so slightly closer to its realization…

I think people are forgetting that Miku’s voice is that of a real person, Fujita Saki. I wonder if they did the concert by just recycling her old voice samples, if they recorded new ones just for the concert, or if (this would have been interesting but unlikely), she was singing through a voice processor live.

They do not fall anywhere near uncanny valley, are you sure you watched the video you linked yourself? Vocaloid characters during the live are still stylized and enhanced realism through high polygon, movements, and effects they achieved through lighting and transparent projector screen technology they used.

I am actually pretty amazed with the technology itself. I mean, it is so real it’s creepy. A 2D creature should not and should never be allowed to descend to our real world, it’s scary. Btw the transparent technology is really cool and I can’t blame the creepy otaku to be moved into tears, I mean, the technology itself is amazing, coupled with their sick brain, so yea… I bet tears will overflow.

If you’ve got the show downloaded you can cut any clips you want from it on a PC using Windows Moviemaker. I’ve done it – but I warn you – Moviemaker wasn’t described as, ‘The editing deck from hell’, for nothing. Firstly you may have to convert the file into something Moviemaker can read.

Very impressive, like how the lights where they were had an effect on the shape of their bodies and all. I think Miku’s voice might be in need of an upgrade soon, like Miku ver. 2.0 or something..! I mean I can guarantee that’ll happen eventually..

But the reaction on 2chn is surprising, it sounds to me a majority of them were more jealous they weren’t there than anything..

I really don’t get Nico. Most people I know ignore or even block (there’s a plugin for that) YouTube comments. On Nico, the comments are even more stupid (I submit the images in this article as evidence), often duplicates and overlap the viewing area where they’re harder to ignore. Sometimes the video itself is impossible to see and you can do nothing but wait until the inane and nigh illegible comments have streamed past. Why do people choose to undergo that experience?

You can turn the comments off on Nico if you want to actually watch the video instead of reading the inane ramblings of jackasses. There’s a lil button for it on the video bar near the volume slider, it looks like a word bubble.

There were cameras around the correspondent and that was used to show her from all sides. Then, all they had to do was tell the computer which camera view to use based on which angle the studio cameras had.

Yeah that’s not gonna happen. As the jap otaku’s put it over there your a 3D pig and he’s obsessed with a fictional character. Now I’m not tryin to make fun of you or anything cause I think all this 2d 3d crap is stupid as hell but I wouldn’t be surprised if you asked him and he just outright said that to you.

Of all the songs they could play for this event why did they include magnet… I understand they wanted a popular duet but can’t we have something other than a horrendously embarrassing (to listen to) lesbian duet.

Things like this prevent vocaloid from escaping its association with the creepy otaku stereotypes.

What I was most interested in was the fact that these concerts aren’t limited by a performer, they don’t face the challenges of a conventional event such as this. They don’t have to pay Miku, she can be anywhere simultaneously, and she can’t get injured. The moneymaking potential is incredible.

Like a rabid fan leaping on stage to jump at the singer. Or what if something gets thrown at them? Or something falls on them, like a light or something? Not that any of that is at all likely, but it can happen. And if a dancer was cosplaying as Miku and broke her ankle and had to cancel a show I’m sure someone would be upset.

Although for something like a cosplayer I’m sure they could find backups. But still, it’s possible.

The Gorillaz did it years ago, the difference being this time it’s apparently not shit. Dethklok had a virtual concert too IIRC.
Different story altogether though I suppose.
Lack of live Kaito is saddening though.

No, Deathklok has normal concerts and the Gorillaz concert didn’t work out.

I went to a Dethklok show in Chicago a couple years ago. Brendan Small does all the vocals and a ton of guitarwork. The show’s characters banter between sets, which must have been pre-recorded because I don’t think Tommy Blancha is there.

The problem Gorillaz ran into was their music was too heavy and caused the screen to vibrate. The crap performance on the VMAs or whatever required them to turn the music down. No idea how Dethklok got past the problem, then again I doubt they’d really care that much.

the quality difference of live (for this) must be pretty big like how I thought HD was not that much better than SD until I saw a movie in HD or show. I wonder how good the virtual transparent screens work out (in quality)?